Visit by Dr Thomas Sterling.
On the Morning of October 18, the Discovery Lab had the pleasure of demonstrating our main project, the Telebot, to Dr Thomas Sterling. Dr Sterling is a PhD graduate from MIT and is the current Executive Associate Director and Chief Scientis of CREST at IU. Dr Sterling’s many accomplishments include “Arnaud and Edwards Endowed Professor”,”Hertz Foundation Fellowship” (1980) and “Gordon Bell Prize for Price Performance” (1997). He came to FIU to give a talk on Advanced Parallel Execution Semantics for Exascale Computing and took a few minutes to visit the Discovery Lab. Dr Sterling was very impressed with the possible applications of the Telebot on the field, as well as with the feat of creating such a system on its own. He mentioned his interest in following the project’s development on its later stages. We hope to be able to meet him later on to update him on our progress.
Sources:
Dr Sterling FIU Presentation
Dr Sterling IU website
http://www.soic.indiana.edu/people/profiles/sterling-thomas.shtml
College of Engineering Research Day
On September 26th, the Discovery Lab had the opportunity to present several of our projects on the Engineering Campus on the very first Research Day. The event was hosted by the College of Engineering and the Applied Research Center (ARC) and was attended by Pres. Rosenberg himself. Pres Rosenberg had the chance to see The SocialBot, and the Telebot Project first hand and was very impressed by our work. Pres Rosenberg was specially impressed with the SocialBot and commended the many possible uses.
Official Event Article
